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Visio Quick Tips

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Get quick answers to your most urgent Visio questions. This course contains more than two dozen bite-sized tips for working efficiently in Visio, the popular diagramming software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Visio quick tips
1. Working with Shapes
  • Restore a missing Shapes pane
  • AutoConnect and Quick Shapes
  • Dynamic grid: Position shapes on the page
  • Dynamic grid: Align and resize shapes
  • Duplicate shapes
  • Align and distribute shapes
  • Draw rectangles, squares, ellipses, and circles
  • Draw straight lines, arcs, and freeform lines
  • Organize shapes with containers
  • Work with swimlanes
  • Lines vs. dynamic connectors
  • Use static glue
  • Use dynamic glue
2. Working with Text
  • Add text to shapes
  • Move the text block to a new location
  • Best practices for text
3. Working with Pages
  • Top five pan and zoom shortcuts
  • Top four diagram navigation shortcuts
  • Create background pages for logos and graphics
  • Create background pages with borders and title blocks
  • Duplicate pages
  • Create PowerPoint slides from a Visio diagram
  • Temporarily suspend snap to grid
4. Leveraging Data
  • Find the Shape Data window
  • Utilize Shape Data fields
  • Run reports
  • Link to external data
  • Link data to shapes
  • Create shapes from external data
  • Update external data and refresh diagrams
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Helmers

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